That's Not a Real One, Is It?

BillH · Mar 12, 2006

SFM6S2015 said:

15 Years ago when I had the time to paint cars for other people. My best customer was a Shelby dealer. He would let me drive and show whatever he had. I took a really nice 67 500 to a local show. Two men in there early 20s came up to look at it. They both thought it was a cool car untill one noticed that it had a fiberglass hood. Then he told his buddy it was a fake. A nice Fake but a fake anyway. I didn't bother to tell them any differant.

With all the CSX 4000 people putting " It's Real " on thier car. We now have a guy in Dallas that has to put "it's Real and Made in 1966 at Shelby American" on his CSX 3000 when he shows it.
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I was at a resort that a group of Cobra owners were having a run. One of the guys is a close friend with a 289 Cobra. We were talking by the car when a guy walked up and started asking questions about the car. My friend told him it was a kit. This killed the guy's interest and he walked away. When he was out of ear-shot, I asked my friend why he had told him that. He said based on past experiences, the guy would have taken up a lot of our time asking questions, then he would have proceeded to pick the car apart. His position was anyone who could look at an obvious aluminum small block Cobra with the hood up, and not be able to tell it was an original car was not worth the time. "It's happened a hundred times before. I know how the conversation will go and sometimes, I get tired of it.

TJinSA · Mar 26, 2006

I have had the OWNER of a Mustang restoration and supply come up and say, "So you got yourself one of those CLONES, do ya?"... (he said without looking under the hood...)

CSX375 · Mar 27, 2006

I never showed mine, but I got plenty of questions. I never answered the people that asked me if it was a Mustang, but my favorite were the (yeah, ok, its dumb, dangerous, and illegal, i know) guys in the Eclipses or hopped up Jettas after a stoplight.
Them:"What they hell is that?"
Me:"Shelby"
T"What?"
M:"A Shelby"
T:"No it isn't"
M:"Yes, yes it is"

Once I convinced them that it was, they asked me how I won. Citing thieri Spoilers, Coffee can mufflers, and ridiculous flames, all I said as "I'm all go instead of all show" Apparently they had difficulty accepting the fact that they lost to an American car with terrible paint, a hole in the exhaust, and no sound system.

jim